172. And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam – from their loins – their offspring and made them testify as to themselves: “Am I not your Lord?” They said: “Yes! We testify,” lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: “Verily, we have been unaware of this.”

173. Or lest you should say: “It was only our fathers aforetime who took others as partners in worship along with Allah, and we were (merely their) descendants after them; will You then destroy us because of the deeds of men who practised Al-Batil .

174. Thus do We explain the Ayat in detail, so that they may turn (unto the truth).